The choreograhers of her programs so far have been Lambiel, Dickson and Wilson, how much more CoP you can find? I just think she is still young and focuses on TES more now.

I don't look at the brand but more at the work. So far I don't think she has had a program that brought out her best qualities.
She lacks art direction so is basically relying on her own wits so it feels as if she has been better than her programs if that makes sense.

I don't look at the brand but more at the work. So far I don't think she has had a program that brought out her best qualities.
She lacks art direction so is basically relying on her own wits so it feels as if she has been better than her programs if that makes sense.

I actually thought Tat's stuff might be suited to her, but oh well.

I feel like she would do well with Lori Nichol who could help her extend her line better. I noticed in her Dark Eyes FS that even during the slow parts, she was swinging her arms everywhere. It didn't really make sense. The arm movements worked much better when the faster music was on.

I feel like she would do well with Lori Nichol who could help her extend her line better. I noticed in her Dark Eyes FS that even during the slow parts, she was swinging her arms everywhere. It didn't really make sense. The arm movements worked much better when the faster music was on.

Very good choice. One thing Lori is really great at is identify and harness the best qualities of the skater and polish it up in a COP friendly way. Like you said the expressive arms with no where to go could do with some calming down. To understand that stillness, extension and the control of lines can be just as expressive and powerful. I suspect because the team have been told she has great expressive arms, she naturally use them more without direction.

It would be good to combine Lori's program with another choreographer who perhaps can communicate with Liza in her native language better and tutor her on artistry/performance theories. As talented as she at her young age, to get to the next level she need more help than Mishin. This season she had so many choreographer so it feels like one big experiment she can afford to do at her young age.

This and also hopefully her spins will all be level 4 by GPF (I know she was injured which is why she can't do the layback well, but maybe she could do some other type of spin instead of the layback in the FS to get more points)

As you may have guessed from the “square-ness”, both those photos are from Instagram. Sorry that the links are not to pages where you can leave comments, but I am only providing a direct link to the images themselves. The reason is that these photos are on her personal Instagram account, as opposed to the other account (using her name in the address) which is purporting to be her “official” account (I have my doubts whether it is, though). And given the amount of personal photos on the personal account, I am sure she would prefer if it’s address wasn’t given out on a public forum.

(I should add that I only came across Liza's personal Instagram by accident, because another skater I am connected with on Facebook frequently "likes" photos Liza posts on it).

Incidentally, two of the photos from the new photoshoot are up on the personal Instagram as well – the one with the table and chairs in the background and… the “rock-chick” photo!

Typical! I needn’t have spent half-an-hour cropping the “rock-chick” photo down to a square to use as my avatar!